Decide which issues are release blockers for the public beta of Smoothie

[stephanegigandet]

Summer is here, everyone could use a fresh smoothie!

Thanks to all your hard work, we have a really cool app with personalization features and lists that I haven't seen anywhere else.

Let's remove the really blocking issues (if any), let's not worry too much about small imperfections, and let's release smoothie!

Would everyone be fine with that?

In the hope that you are, we can use GitHub's project feature to plan, make, and track progress:
https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/projects/8

The first step would be to list all the things we really need to fix / to do before we can release a public version.

We can make 2 lists:

1 - Must fix / must do

• fixes for bugs that make the app crash
• fixes for features that do not work (e.g. if we can't scan or open products)

2 - Nice to have, but not necessary

We can focus on the first list, and I think we should release as soon as we have done the must do list, and not wait for nice to have features.

We have a rather big list of open issues (currently 18 open) in https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/milestone/1 for the "V0.9 - Soft launch" milestone. Some of those are probably things that we could release without.

So I propose to create a new list "V0.9 - Soft launch - Must do" https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/milestone/3 where we put as few issues as possible.

Part of

• Launch Smoothie (tracker bug) #500

[monsieurtanuki]

My choices...

Very important:

• Smoothie needs an icon #97
• Crashes on product/photo addition #405
• The scanning zone is small, and does not match the visual cue. #404
• Automatic screenshot generation for Marketing & Tests #217

Important:

• Make personal ranking the default setting #347
• Add user management #419
• Add new Strings to Crowdin #439

Not very important:

• Searchbar refreshes the whole homepage  #407
• Scan card is transparent #403
• The cards are not homogeneous throughout the app #345
• Improve the usability of ranked results #348
• Question: has the old layout of preferences been kept somewhere ? #344
• More manual color choice #279
• Picture cache for slow connectivity / offline #413
• Add user management #419

Probably alright by now

• The scan cards are sometimes showing Palm oil unknown, sometimes Eco-Score unknown #342
• Add a button to scan 1st product on empty lists #264
• Existing images not displayed #266
• The icon for "Palm oil unknown" is not explicit #341

[stephanegigandet]

Thanks @monsieurtanuki ! Let's move all the Very important + Important issues to the public beta project.

• Automatic screenshot generation for play / app store Automatic screenshot generation for Marketing & Tests #217

I'm curious about that one. I agree it's very important that we eventually have it so that we can have play + app store screenshots in 200 languages, but for the beta, we could start with manual screenshots in English (and possibly a couple of other languages).

[monsieurtanuki]

I can help with the 3 "initial languages" (en, de, fr) with the shell script I was talking about.
Semi-automatic then.
And while it's running, I cannot use my computer. Therefore, for a start let's limit it to a small number of languages.

[M123-dev]

@monsieurtanuki does the script only work for ios or also for Android virtual machines

[monsieurtanuki]

@M123-dev I haven't tried for Android - I will have to for my own app, though.
The only tricky part is to switch languages: how to do that in shell on an Android simulator.

For the record the principles so far are:

1. write a flutter "test" (do something, take a screenshot, do something else, take another screenshot, ...)
2. write a shell script that loops for all languages: {switch to a language/country, run the test}
3. open an iOS simulator (5.5", 6.5" or 12.9")
4. run the shell script

Specific potential issue for smoothie: the scanner, on a simulator.

[Edit: added]
Code excerpt:

./ios_simulator.sh $SIMULATOR locale fr_FR
./ios_simulator.sh $SIMULATOR shutdown
./ios_simulator.sh $SIMULATOR boot
sleep 120
LANGUAGE=fr flutter drive --target=test_driver/app.dart

[M123-dev]

@monsieurtanuki
Probably this could to the trick for android

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41654317/13313941

Regarding the scanner, in the android virtual device camera you get thrown into a 3D world where you can walk around and you can even insert custom images on some points, like the wall or on top of the table. But I doubt that this is possible via script.

I only found a workaround where you have to replace some local files.
When we keep one product and do not choose to use local ones this should be fine.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/64922184/13313941

[stephanegigandet]

Adding user management is very important I think:

• Add user management #419

Is someone interested in working on it?

If there are missing APIs etc. on the server side, I can help on that. But I certainly won't be the fastest to implement the Flutter part in Smoothie.

[teolemon]

• Everything from those lists are implemented, and the beta has been launched.
• Closing this one